Valerie Lassman Collection of Frances Newman Research Materials, 1896-2013, Date acquired: 02/12/2014, bulk 1924-1929

Creator:: Newman, Frances; Lassman, Valerie
Abstract:: Research materials used by Florida State University alumna Valerie Lassman to prepare her dissertation and publication A Violet in the Sahara, her biography of Frances Newman. Includes typescript of her book.
Extent:: 0.40 Linear Feet
Language:: English
Preferred citation:: [Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Valerie Lassman Collection of Frances Newman Research Materials , Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2014-001

Scope and content:: Includes photocopies of articles about Frances Newman, correspondence, Frances Newman's diary, her sister Lucy Newman's Bride's Book newspaper clippings, and photographs.
Biographical / historical:: Frances Newman (1883-1928) was an Atlanta, GA novelist, librarian, literary critic, and translator. She was born in 1883, the youngest daughter in an Atlanta family. Her father, Judge William T. Newman, was a Confederate soldier who became a U.S. district judge. Her mother, Fanny Percy Alexander, was a direct descendant of the founder of Knoxville, Tennessee. Newman attended the Calhoun Street School and Washington Seminar in Atlanta and finishing schools in Washington, D.C., and New York City. She briefly enrolled in Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA and completed a library science degree at the Atlanta Carnegie Library in 1912. Newman worked from 1912-1913 as a librarian at Florida State College for Women in Tallahassee and returned to Atlanta in 1914, after a Mediterranean tour, to work at the Atlanta Carnegie Library. Here she began her writing career
Acquisition information:: Valerie Lassman
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Preferred citation:: [Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Valerie Lassman Collection of Frances Newman Research Materials , Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2014-001

Location of this collection:: FSU Special Collections & Archives

116 Honors Way

Tallahassee

FL

32306-2047

USA